nelz wrote:Good point, although I think our expectations were lower back then

Rather the opposite - the wafer-thin flat-topped cack that passes for cool functionality today was cold-shouldered back then as next to unusable for serious office work. I rather suspect that people today just love any opportunity to quit typing while on the move.

Hmm, something the size of a Series 5 running Android would be rather nice.

Don't get me started. Hey, what's the opposite of a troll? Something that beguiles the reader into wistful burbling. A fairy queen maybe?

"Klinger, do you know how many zoots were killed to make that one suit?" — BJ Hunnicutt, 4077 M*A*S*H

I actually got to use one of the original tablet pcs.
It was dreadfully slow, even running win98.
The battery life was pretty short, and you had to use a heavy metal caused pen thing.
It was a compaq . It also came with a rather rubbish detachable keyboard.
And if you think a transformer is heavy, that was about 3 times the weight.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100

The sig between the asterisks is so cool that only REALLY COOL people can even see it!